Leisure Centre And Library

The building is a leisure centre and library, originally built as a school in 1897, and with subsequent alterations. It is constructed of red brick with brick and stone dressings, and has steeply pitched red clay tile roofs with wide eaves. Notable features include a brick ridge stack, elaborately moulded terracotta ridge vents, a tapering square cupola with a domed copper roof and louvred sides to the rear, moulded stone copings to the gables, and a domed copper roof to the tower, which has a flagpole at its top.

The building has a square plan and is largely single-storey, with an attic to the centre bay of the north elevation. The north elevation has a projecting central bay flanked by recessed wings. Each wing features an advanced central gabled doorcase. A three-stage tower is located between the western doorcase and the central bay. The central bay has flush stone bands at the sill and lintel levels of the ground floor windows, and a similar band at the sill level of the upper window. The ground floor features a central timber cross window flanked by single-light windows, each set within a moulded surround with quoined jambs and shouldered corners. Bands of flush stone are present between the window quoins. The side windows have egg and dart moulded dripmoulds, while the central window has a semi-circular hood with a plain ashlar tympanum and a double keystone to the top of the window surround. Above, a slightly advanced central four-light mullion and transomed window has quoined jambs and a dripmould. Corner pilasters are banded and feature semi-circular headed coping stones, inscribed 'ANO 18' on the east and 'DNI 97' on the west. The gable above the central bay is eared and features a central stone shield inscribed 'MSB’.

The wings to either side have central doorcases containing moulded stone semi-circular arches with radiating quoins and shaped gables above, each with a three-light mullioned opening, pedimented over the central light. The eastern door is flanked by a two-light casement to the west and a single-light one to the east; a similar window is located to the west of the western door and tower to the east. The tower has two inserted ground floor windows, a three-light mullion window above, and a banded top stage with triple, louvred semi-circular headed openings on all sides, along with a moulded cornice. The side elevations contain large gabled bays with central two-light semi-circular headed casements flanked by lower single-light windows, featuring a continuous moulded sill band and brick pilasters between, rising to the pebbledashed gable above. Internally, the rooms are plain and contain arched braced roofs.